From the glittering ballrooms of 17th Century England to the dangerous intrigues of the French court, in her new novel Milady, Laura L. Sullivan brings an unlikely heroine to the page, turning on its head everything we’ve been told about The Three Musketeers and their ultimate rival. “Un pour tous,” I said. “One for all.”…
The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz is an electrifying first novel from “a riveting new voice in American fiction” (George Saunders): A young woman returns to her childhood home in the American South and uncovers secrets about her father’s life and death. This house was once a house. Heard the knock of white men…
Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered is the highly anticipated first book by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, the voices behind the #1 hit podcast My Favorite Murder! Little girls are taught to be polite, to smile pretty and sit up straight, to be nice and accommodating. And then those little girls turn into grown-ass…
The Confessions of Frannie Langton is a debut novel from Sara Collins. A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this historical thriller that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London. I’m forced to trot to keep up with the turnkeys so…
Stone Mothers by Erin Kelly, the masterful author of He Said/She Said, is an intense, irresistible novel of psychological suspense.
Death of a New American by Mariah Fredericks is the atmospheric, compelling follow-up to the stunning debut A Death of No Importance, featuring series character, Jane Prescott. For some reason, the first thing I understood was the open window, the curtain blowing wildly into the room. A lamp lay overturned on the floor, a little china dog…
Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel is the fourth book in the Frey & McGray series, where Edinburgh’s most famed detective duo face their most metaphysical mystery yet as they investigate a series of crimes surrounding the miraculous waters in the remote Loch Maree. The silence was absolute, broken only by the occasional…
Debut author S.A. Lelchuk’s Save Me From Dangerous Men is the first book in a series featuring Nikki Griffin, who uses her detective skills to take the law into her own hands to defend and protect women against toxic masculine predators. I waited until he was halfway out of the chair. Off-balance, legs bent, weight…
After the Eclipse by Fran Dorricott is a thriller about two abductions of young girls that take place 16 years apart. A sister of one of the missing girls tries to connect the recent abduction to her missing sister’s cold case to find the criminal responsible. Half an hour to go until it was dark.…
Charles Finch’s The Vanishing Man is a prequel to his Charles Lenox Victorian series in which the theft of an antique painting sends Detective Lenox on a hunt for a criminal mastermind. …His eyes returned to the much smaller, smoky painting. Number five. It was in a wood frame, not gilt like the others, and…
